December 2010
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I would like to talk about periods. Almost all...
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HERE CHOOSE A NAME FOR THE PERIOD TUMBLR http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HTNT83B
Ask Laneia anything
FEMINIST COLLECTIVITY + MENSTRUAL DISCUSSIONS.
my love of tumblr is at an all-time high right now, which is really saying something.
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"wavves is better than your blog!!!" or something
thereal90s:
Hi guys! So we’re back. I feel like we stopped posting after this weird dude Leon starting dissing us on the internet. He was all “Wavves is better than your blog!!!” or something and then we got heated about it (this all happened via internet btw). That’s not actually why we didn’t update though. I think it more had to do with me moving to LA, and then moving back, and then we got...
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everything about this.
bestsparkler:
Tonight, I learned, after 27 years, that I am bow-legged. My mother pointed it out to me, and I poured myself a whiskey. The first half of that sentence is not exactly the cause of the second.
As any reader of romance knows, love largely appeals through its incrementalism: its muddled middle, that space of ideology and convention, fantasy and timing,...
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"its me, bitches"
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kj and mm’s top 10 shared experiences of 2010
1. january 1st effusive friendship phone calls, texts, tumblring and more tumblring, and prophesies
2. the girl power reading at tribeca, followed by radically vulnerable dinnertime conversation, followed by effusive friendship emails and promises to help each other be great in 2010
3. the perineum party: “why do you hate marisa and sassy?” performative touching, outfits, sharlenes
4. emp: red...
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the year in review
marisa, i would like to formally apologize to you for missing the panel you moderated.
meltzer:
I’m leaving today for the EMP pop conference in Seattle. If you have spent more than ten minutes in my presence, you will know that EMP is basically the highlight of my life. I only feel marginally nerdy admitting this.
I’ll be moderating a panel called Engendering Technology Friday...
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“To think through the intensity of memory-work in the contemporary moment, it is important to see it as inextricably intertwined with an anxiety concerning systems that induce structural forgetting. But memory and forgetting are not opposing things; rather, they are an interplay of the same process. It was the peculiarities of what an individual forgets and the invention of a new pathology of...
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“the public-private dichotomy, which is to say, the public-private hierarchy, is...”
– jane tompkins, a duke professor turned memoirist, sounds so pre-tumblr in one of my favorite articles of all time, from a 1994 issue of lingua franca.
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“i am prompted by new media scholar amit rai’s reformulation of sexuality as an ‘ecology of sensations’—as affect instead of identity—that transcends the deisgnations of straight and gay and can further help to disaggregate them from their racialized histories.
missing from the debate about clementi’s suicide is a discussion about the proclivities of...
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“We started trading e-mails the night before under the subject line ‘Which Kardashian are you?’ Fleur was ‘a Khloé with a strong undercurrent of Kourtney’; Bolt, ‘a Khloé with Kim rising.’ Ace pleaded ignorance, though she’s a Kim, through and through. Me, probably more Kourtney than I’d care to admit, so let’s say mostly Kim and call it a day.”
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“joy has no need of heirs or of children - joy wants itself, wants eternity, the...”
– roland barthes in a lover’s discourse (via winterings)
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“There is a second part of the Spinozan definition taken up by Deleuze that is not cited as often. It is that a power to affect and be affected governs a transition, where a body passes from one state of capacitation to a diminished or augmented state of capacitation. This comes with the corollary that the transition is felt. A distinction is asserted between two levels, one of which is feeling...
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more lesbian poetry. i was trying to explain this the other day, but it explains itself.
XV If I lay on that beach with you white, empty, pure green water warmed by the Gulf Stream and lying on that beach we could not stay because the wind drove fine sand against us as if it were against us if we tried to withstand it and we failed— if we drove to another place to sleep in each other’s arms and...
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(via curate)
We dug and planted. We intend to have a history here behind this rented house. Despite the owner there is a secret between us and the ground. In the wet dirt, our fleshy bulbs and the pink cloves of garlic are making nests of roots. The fact of the garden has satisfied me all morning: that we worked side by side, your name round when I spoke it: that my fingers worked in the dirt...
